Toktos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VIII |
| Dates | 767 (taq) / 772 (ob.) |
| Ethnicity | Bulgar |
| Titles | Ruler of the Bulgars (office) |
| Textual Sources | Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history) |
For Toktos 1's dates, 767 to 772, see Grumel, Chronologie, p. 388. A leading Bulgar, brother of Baianos 4, he was made ruler of the Bulgars in 767 (in indiction 3, 764/765, according to Nicephorus) in succession to Oumar 1; for this the Bulgars were attacked by the Romans under Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) and defeated and many were killed, among them both Toktos 1 and Baianos 4 (in 772, cf. above): Nic. Brev. de Boor 70-71, Mango 79. See Runciman, First Bulgarian Empire, p. 40.
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